Friedrich Eugen, Duke of Württemberg (21 January 1732 in Stuttgart – 23 December 1797 in Hohenheim), the fourth son of Duke Karl Alexander and Princess Maria Augusta of Thurn and Taxis (11 August 1706 - 1 February 1756).
He served as Duke of Württemberg from the death of his older brother Ludwig Eugen in 1795 until his own death two years later. For most of his life he had lived at and managed his family's exclave of Montbeliard, originally inher...
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Friedrich Eugen, Duke of Württemberg (21 January 1732 in Stuttgart – 23 December 1797 in Hohenheim), the fourth son of Duke Karl Alexander and Princess Maria Augusta of Thurn and Taxis (11 August 1706 - 1 February 1756).
He served as Duke of Württemberg from the death of his older brother Ludwig Eugen in 1795 until his own death two years later. For most of his life he had lived at and managed his family's exclave of Montbeliard, originally inherited by marriage in 1397, until it was taken over by the short-lived Rauracian Republic in 1792 and then annexed by the French Republic in 1793.
He married Friederike Sophia Dorothea of Brandenburg-Schwedt, a niece of Frederick the Great, by whom he had twelve children :
His daughter Sophie Dorothea married Emperor Paul I of Russia and become Empress Marie Feodorovna. The Empress was mother to (among others) Emperors Alexander I and Nicholas I of Russia as well as Queen Anna Paulowna of the Netherlands (from whom the current Dutch royal family...
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